On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:29, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:51:47 +1200
>
> Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 July 2006 13:23, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> > > Don't you remember your CP/M?
> >
> > Earlier than that. PIP was implemented in O/S8 on the PDP-8, and
> > subsequently in RT-11 on the PDP-11.
> >
> > In later versions of RT-11 there was a COPY command which was a front-end
> > to PIP
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/8
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Interchange_Program
> >
> > --
> > CS
>
> I used it on many PDP-11's under RSX-11M ( and +, which had added batch
> processing! ), and IAS. However, srd was a much better and more flexible
> interface. Haven't things changed in the last 25 years (:
>
> Steve

PIP!  I tried to learn it on a DEC Rainbow I got in 1991.  Never worked it out 
though.

Wesley Parish
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